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On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades to ...

The Gaia space telescope, launched in 2013, has been deactivated and placed in a "retirement orbit" around the sun after mapping nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way.

Artist's impression of the Gaia telescope mapping stars of the Milky Way galaxy. | Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier On March 27, scientists bid farewell to the Gaia telescope ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as "the discovery machine of the decade." ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades to come.

They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this amazing space telescope. Gaia has been the most successful ESA space mission ever, so why did ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades ...